A few years ago wrote the Karolinska Institute’s staff magazine KI Bladet that a group of researchers at the Institute for a long time crept into references to Bob Dylan’s lyrics in their reports to honor him.
Now the staff at Karolinska Institutet examined this is something unique to the institution, or whether the phenomenon can be found in biomedical research more generally. After an interlinking of Dylan’s song and album titles with the bibliographic database Medline found 727 references where the oldest was from 1970 in an issue of the Journal of Practical Nusing, during that decade were found a handful Dylan Quotes. Then they disappeared but became common from the 1990s onwards
In his Dylan Study authors write that there are probably several explanations for this. One guess is that the 1960s young radical students then listened to Dylan today’s medical doctors and researchers. Another explanation is that the scholarly journals today have a more liberal attitude to, for example eccentric part name.
The songs most cited is “The Times They Are A-Changing” and “Blowin ‘in the Wind”. Even titles like “All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone” are popular references.
But it is not only the scientists show Bob Dylan respect. The authors of the study from Karolinska Institutet has also found some evidence that the respect is mutual and cites the song “Do not Fall Apart On Me Tonight” where Dylan writes “I wish I’d havebeen a doctor / Maybe I’d have saved someones life That had been lost / Maybe I’d have done some good in the world ‘.
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